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After a two-week holiday, 12 million pupils return to school in France. At the Jean Jaurès secondary school in Cenon, classes begin with a tribute to Samuel Paty, the teacher who was beheaded on 16 October for having shown cartoons of Mohammed in class. IMAGES
Pupils from Graveney School in South London arrive for classes as schools in England reopen after months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. IMAGES
Hundreds of people poured out into the streets lighting candles on Thursday, mourning for the victims of the terrorist attack in Peshawar where 141 of which 132 were children were killed.
Following a damming Pisa report card for French pupils, Education Minister Gabriel Attal wants to entry to high school be pending on passing an exam. Attal says the 'Brevet', currently a nation-wide test taken the last year of junior high school will now be used as a pass or fail exam to entre lycee. SOUNDBITE
An hour before classes resumed, pupils from the Gambetta secondary school in the northern town of Arras collected the wreaths laid outside the school in memory of the teacher killed and the two people injured in a knife attack four days earlier. IMAGES
Kandahar, Oct 18 (EFE / EPA).- The Taliban promised on Monday that they would "soon" allow all girls to return to school, after not allowing them to access to education in secondary schools following their reopening a month ago.The ban on reopening schools for girls and young people has caused uncertainty among the Afghan people, with criticism from women's rights activists who fear returning to the dark era under the former Taliban regime between 1996 and 2001. (Camera:STRINGER) FOOTAGE SHOWS AFGHAN SCHOOL GIRLS ATTEND THEIR SCHOOL IN KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN.